Some of the women he knew well, others not at all. He would fix on a woman and build imaginary stories around her. Chosen Prey book description He desired women. A policeman is looking for a serial killer and most of the victims are women including the killers mother. The publication date of this novel was May 7, 2001. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Chosen Prey. 1: Rules of Prey (A Prey Novel 1) (Paperback): 9.99 2: Shadow Prey (A Prey. He is becoming a monster - and Lucas may have no choice but to walk right into his lair. John Sandford Chosen Prey is the 12th of the Prey books that feature Lucas Davenport. This is book number 12 in the A Prey Novel series. It is novel 12 in what will be the 27 novel Lucas Davenport series when Golden Prey is released next month. The man is learning as he goes, Lucas realizes, taking great strides forward with each murder. Chosen Prey is an excellent suspense thriller about a university art professor who is a serial killer of young women that fit a specific profile. And you know something? He liked it.Īlready faced with a welter of confusion in his personal life, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport decides to take this case himself, hoping that some straightforward police work will clear his head, but as the trail begins to take some unexpected turns, it soon becomes clear that nothing is straightforward about this killer. A man in his position couldn't be too careful, after all. well, one thing led to another, and he had to kill her. One day, he took the hobby a step further and. A New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet -the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession.Īn art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. (May) FYI: Mind Prey was adapted into a TV movie, John Sandford's Mind Prey, which aired on ABC in March. 300,000 first printing $300,000 ad/promo BOMC main selection author tour. While not the pseudonymous Sandford's best, (he is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp) this is a swift, satisfying entry in a series with long, muscular legs. Youd never guess what was going on in his mind Art history professor James Qatar has a hobby: he takes secret photographs. The action doesn't always wash: Davenport tumbles to Carmel's involvement too easily, and Carmel's ferocious response to being framed by Davenport redefines the term ""over the top."" The play between the two women, who bond like sisters, is as fascinating as the courtship of venomous lizards, and the novel's background hum-comprised of various amatory rustlings, forensic and legal ploys, and maneuvers among cops, FBI agents, mobsters and the killers-is rich in authentic detail. When the junkie who connected Carmel to Rinker blackmails the pair, for instance, Carmel tortures him with an electric drill as Rinker watches. The storyline spools out as a cat-and-mouse among the women and Davenport, with the villainesses dominating the action, sometimes in tangential scenes. Years later, the other femme fatale, sociopathic Minneapolis defense lawyer Carmel Loan, hires Rinker to kill the wife of property attorney Hale Allen, whom Carmel desires within days, she has Hale in bed. Clara Rinker's life as a murderer and mob hit woman begins when she is raped at age 16 and beats her assailant dead with a baseball bat. As if acknowledging his series' hero's unflashy demeanor, Sandford, in his 10th Prey book (after Secret Prey), allows two gleefully unrecalcitrant female antagonists to steal the show from Davenport. The vast popularity of the Prey novels is probably due, then, not so much to this dependable hero as to Sandford's clever plotting, sure pacing and fully rounded villains-as well as his smart prose. Parker's Spenser or James Patterson's Alex Cross. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub on January 21, 2011. This is one that will keep you awake at night for more than one reason. For all his brooding, Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport lacks the charisma of, say, Robert B. Sandford, with CHOSEN PREY, continues to tinker with Lucas Davenport's professional and personal life while introducing one of the more disturbing antagonists of recent crime fiction.
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